Salt Lake City NBC Affiliate Pulls Hannibal

If you're a fan of Hannibal living in Salt Lake City, UT, don't look for it on NBC any longer. The local NBC affiliate, KSL, has dropped the series.

KSL's Tami Ostmark spoke to The Salt Lake Tribune, telling them, "After this last week's episode, it just had too much graphic content for us. It was just too bloody and violent. This is beyond anything we've put on our station before. This is too graphic to be on regular TV. It should be a cable show. We've talked to NBC, and that's how we feel about it."

So how can Salt Lake City viewers see Hannibal? The local CW affiliate, KUCW, will now air it on Saturdays, following another NBC series KSL refuses to air: Saturday Night Live. It will be the third current NBC series airing on KUCW, as KSL also refuses to air The New Normal. A couple years back, KSL also wouldn't air NBC's short-lived the Playboy Club.

KUCW's Richard Doutre Jones tells the Salt Lake Tribune, "We're happy to air all of the NBC shows KSL doesn't."